Q-sep Extraction Salts Make QuEChERS Even Easier
December 21, 2017
For years, the QuEChERS approach has made sample preparation faster and easier than traditional methods. Now, the new Q-sep extraction salts from Restek make an easy technique even simpler. Restek’s new, improved design provides the salts in a more granular form, so they flow freely and are easier to pour than powders. The convenient slim [...]
December 21, 2017
2017 Year in review It's been a busy year for us here at Spectradyne, so we thought we would give you a quick review! Sales update In 2017, Spectradyne doubled the installed base of nCS1TM instruments! Installations include our first overseas customer (in Germany), our first university customers, and several major pharmaceutical customers. Looking ahead to [...]
December 21, 2017
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and PHILADELPHIA, PA -- Ovation.io, Inc. (Ovation), makers of the fastest-growing clinical laboratory information and commercialization platform, and Coriell Life Sciences, Inc., an innovative provider of clinical genetic reporting solutions, announced today a partnership and platform integration designed to create a seamless ecosystem for sample and workflow management, genetic data interpretation, and external client [...]
ArcticZymes AS Launches Two New IsoPol™ Polymerases
December 21, 2017
ArcticZymes today announced the expansion of their polymerase portfolio. The IsoPol™ SD⁺ and IsoPol™ BST⁺ deliver low temperature isothermal polymerases, one with increased strand displacement, and the second an improvement over existing Bacillus stearothermophilus available today. IsoPol™ SD+ is a DNA polymerase with stronger strand displacement activity, and higher salt tolerance compared to ArcticZymes first [...]
Schrödinger and MaRS Innovation Announce the Launch of Bright Angel Therapeutics
December 21, 2017
Bright Angel Therapeutics to leverage Schrödinger’s best-in-class drug discovery platforms to develop novel therapeutics for the treatment of drug-resistant and life-threatening fungal infections New York, NY and Toronto, Canada - Schrödinger, Inc., a privately-held company dedicated to revolutionizing drug discovery through advanced computational methods, and MaRS Innovation, a non-profit organization supporting the commercialization of research breakthroughs [...]
MilliporeSigma Signs Commercial Supply Agreement with bluebird bio for Viral Vector Manufacturing
December 20, 2017
-- Aims to accelerate manufacturing of new treatments for broad range of serious diseases -- Underscores MilliporeSigma as a leading contract manufacturing organization and commercial provider of viral vectors for gene therapy BURLINGTON, Mass. -- MilliporeSigma today announced that it has signed a commercial supply agreement to manufacture viral vectors for bluebird bio, Inc., of Cambridge, Massachusetts, for [...]
Juno Therapeutics and Thermo Fisher Scientific Announce CAR T Manufacturing Partnership
December 20, 2017
WALTHAM, Mass. -- Juno Therapeutics (NASDAQ: JUNO) and Thermo Fisher Scientific have entered into a partnership for Juno to use Thermo Fisher's Cell Therapy Systems (CTS) activation reagents in the manufacturing of its chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR T) therapies. Under the seven-year nonexclusive licensing and supply agreement, Juno has obtained rights to use CTS Dynabeads CD3/CD28 [...]
Edinburgh Instruments Celebrates the Production of 1000th EPLED Laser
December 20, 2017
Edinburgh Instruments (EI) is pleased to announce its 1000th production of the EPLED picosecond pulsed diode lasers. Introduced in 2005, the EPLED lasers were designed as an excitation source to use with EI’s spectrometers, and continue to make improvements from year to year. Over the last 12 years EI has added new wavelengths, and as the [...]
Genedata Profiler Moves To High-Performance Clouds
December 20, 2017
Innovative enterprise platform for clinical cross-omics now also accessible via high-performance cloud computing services Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services Basel, Switzerland Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for biopharmaceutical research and development (R&D), today announced that Genedata ProfilerTM, its leading enterprise software platform for omics-based profiling of patients in translational and clinical [...]

